You want to choose one long distance telephone company from the following
options:
Company A charges $0.32 dollars per minute (no fixed monthly charge).
Company B charges $13.95 per month plus $0.2 per minute.
Company C charges a fixed rate of $50 per month.
Let , , and denote the monthly charges of Company
A, B, and C respectively for spending minutes on long distance calls.
(a) Find a formula for the monthly cost of using Company A, :
(b) Find a formula for the monthly cost of using Company B, :
(c) Find a formula for the monthly cost of using Company C, :
(d) If you spend 125 minutes talking long distance in a month, which of the three companies will be cheapest? Enter the letter (A, B, or C) here:
(e) Given the graph below, match the number of each graph to corresponding
company it represents:
You can earn partial credit on this problem.